JANET AND JOEL Mondlak pose with their dog, Horace, in “Across the Street” — their new pop up antiques and collectibles shop on Center Street in Brandon. The couple will be hanging out their shingle through October.
Brandon Reporter photo/Lee J. Kahrs

BRANDON — The plan was always to come back to Brandon. And much like the U.S. Postal Service, neither rain nor pandemic would keep Janet and Joel Mondlak from their appointed rounds here.

ANDREW AND ELIZABETH Done were pleased with the way their business, the Shoreham Inn, had bounced back during the first week after reopening from the pandemic lockdown. While the Dones are hosting dinners outside, their 10-room hotel is currently allowed to lodge only in two rooms.
Independent photo/Polly Heminway

SHOREHAM — As COVID-19 has closed bigger retail establishments, restaurants, hotels, lodges and inns across Vermont and the country, it’s also affected the hundreds smaller bed and breakfasts and c

HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE carrying signs and sporting masks protested the killing of George Floyd and other police violence during a demonstration in downtown Middlebury on Saturday evening.
Photo by Jason Duquette-Hoffman

ADDISON COUNTY AND BRANDON — People started gathering in College Park, the former site of the Middlebury town offices, a little before 6 p.m. on Saturday.

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